Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 09/14/2008
... Author Herman Wouk's spellbinding ways . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) I had a friend college who absolutely fell in love with Youngblood Hawke .
New York Times (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
Herman Wouk, 93, will receive the first lifetime achievement award for fiction writing from the Library of Congress on Wednesday.
CRITICAL MASS (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
Herman Wouk , middlebrow novelist whose best selleers were based in part on research conducted at the Library of Congress, will read from his unpublished literary diaries on September 10 at 5 pm at the Library of Congress. The occasion: he is the first to be honored with the Library of Congress Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Writing of Fiction. Joining Wouk to read from his work: New York Times...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
John McCain says that one of his "life's ambitions is to meet Herman Wouk." Which doesn't sound all that challenging, as goals go. The author...
LisNews (Free subscription) | 08/21/2008
Now well into his nineties, author Herman Wouk will be awarded the first Library of Congress Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Writing of Fiction next month. His major works have been The Caine Mutiny, Marjorie Morningstar, Youngblood Hawke, The Winds of War, War and Remembrance and Don't Stop the Carnival. Librarian of Congress James Billington says of the Pulitzer prize-winning author, "Herman...
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
Washington , DC - Librarian of Congress James H. Billington will present Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Herman Wouk with the first Library of Congress Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Writing of Fiction. The award recognizes Wouk’s extraordinary contributions to American letters and his dedication to, as he has said, the enduring power of the novel.The award will be presented on Wednesday, Sept....
Bookgasm (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
It’s fitting for two reasons that Max Allan Collins (here writing as Patrick Culhane) should quote Herman Wouk at the start of his new novel RED SKY IN MORNING. Wouk’s quote concerns his naval service in WWII for one thing, and it is naval service and the second World War that is the heart of [...]
andra (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
Editorial Reviews Amazon.com An engrossing, 1983 television miniseries based on a bestselling work of historical fiction by Herman Wouk, The Winds of War is an admirable production reminiscent of the era of Hollywood's epic features. At the center of the globe-trotting story is the Henry family, whose laconic but straight-shooting patriarch is United States Navy Commander Victor "Pug" Henry (Robert...
TVShowsOnDVD.com News (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
By David Lambert - A few weeks ago we alerted you to MPI Home Video's plans to release War and Remembrance - The Complete Series on October 28th. Now MPI has sent over additional information about this... (more)
Hispanic Business Magazine (Free subscription) | 05/20/2008
When Victor Wouk, brother of famous novelist Herman Wouk, built a hybrid 1972 Buick Skylark, he might have envisioned what the environment and economy would need in the future. With gas prices continuously rising, some local business owners are now moving toward the hybrid vehicle to save money, but to also to go green....
DVD Talk (Free subscription) | 04/15/2008
Highly Recommended The Product: When Dan Curtis did something, he never did it halfway. Take his amazing mini-series The Winds of War . Trying to bring Herman Wouk's epic novel to the small screen was foolhardy enough. Actually distilling World War II down to 19 primetime hours was downright insane. But that was typical of the man responsible for such memorable examples of the medium as The Night...
Postman Patel (Free subscription) | 04/13/2008
Department of Special Collections and University Archives McFarlin Library. University of Tulsa Has the manuscript of a poem by Malcolm Lowry - Tashtego believed Red Stubbs the quirky, fatalistic second mate on the Pequod had a harpoonist, Tashtego a "native" Gay Head Indian from Martha’s Vineyard. One of the last of his tribe which is about to disappear. The role of the noble savage is one he
Virgin Islands Daily News (Free subscription) | 04/05/2008
Years ago it was a requirement to have read Herman Wouk's Don't Stop the Carnival before you settled down to live in these islands. A lot of the charm he described is gone but we still retain a degree of quirkiness that frequently gives one cause to wonder; sometimes with a chuckle, sometimes with seriousness, sometimes with hands in the air signifying acceptance.
PlayBill (Free subscription) | 04/04/2008
Today In Theatre History: APRIL 4and Ernio Hernandez and Robert Viagas1921 Sarah Bernhardt, who recently had one leg amputated, comes to London to play the title role in Louis Verneuil's Daniel at the Prince's Theatre. When she found a wooden leg unwieldy, she designed a litter chair for herself and was carried around the stage. Of course, she needed no help balancing herself on one leg for the curtain...
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home (Free subscription) | 04/01/2008
The nurses and the social worker agreed. “Hearing,” they all more or less said, “is the last thing to go.” At 5:30 p.m. today my mother, always a good listener when my sister and I needed her, died at 94 of congestive heart failure in a rest home in Springfield, Virginia. I don’t know [...]
